- Men and Women Use Uptalk Differently: A Study of Jeopardy! | Sociological Images: “The punchline? Women use uptalk more frequently, but men use it as well. For men, however, uptalk signals something completely different.”
- Balance | nickd: ”Sometimes people need encouragement when they’ve been discouraged for a lot of their lives.”
- What Your Culture Really Says | Pretty Little State Machine: “Let’s examine popular startup trends that are being called “culture” and look beneath the surface to find the real culture that may be playing out beneath it.”
- Creating a Commons | Solvitur ambulando: Text of the keynote address from the code4lib 2013 library-technology conference, focuses on diversity and inclusiveness.
- Journalism, Storification, and Harassment | Critical Damage: Great post about the ethics of reporting on controversial subjects by using embedded tweets
- geek+ (with tweets) | mcdaldno: “i think a lot about geek culture. these are my thoughts on how we can improve our geek cultures and spaces. it’s also a manifesto for how i plan to act from here on out.”
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Geek Feminism Blog 
New Surprisingly Free podcast—Is Geek Culture Sexist?
Joseph Reagle, argues that there is an institutional sexism in geek culture (only 1% of the free software movement and 9% of Wikipedians are female), for which he blames “geekiness, openness, and free culture/freedom/the rhetoric and ideology of freedom.”
“This anarchic, libertarian ethic that values free speech above anything else, including being friendly, being productive, being welcoming, might be part of the problem. And the other part of that is, that the rhetoric of freedom itself can sort of veil or hide this particular problem.”
“Over decades, people have marshaled this argument that, because things are open and free, there can be no cultural or structural issues alienating women from participation, and I just don’t think that’s true.”
Suggestion for the next linkspam:
http://io9.com/5972417/why-cant-any-recent-sherlock-holmes-adaptation-get-irene-adler-right
“Why is Arthur Conan Doyle’s Irene Adler so much better than the versions crafted by Steven Moffat and Guy Ritchie?” — “The original Irene was far more progressive and canny. She knows the best way to throw Holmes off — and it’s not sex.”
Suggestion for the next link spam:
http://stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com/post/44273831996/bioshock-infinite-tomb-raider-and-exploitation
I don’t know if you post articles from Tumblr, but this one’s pretty interesting.
“The West has consumed moe for years through imported, otaku-targeted anime, manga and video games; but we have not regurgitated it into our own culture. The video game industry is set to break that trend next month.”
Who’s seen that lovely, inspiring code.org video telling everyone they should learn to code?
Right at the start, there’s the old story about how Bill Gates used his coding skills to manipulate class lists so he could sit with all the pretty girls. That’s not a little creepy? Objectifying girls and secretive, stalkerish behaviour? There’s even a cute little animation.
How’s that for encouraging young women to feel comfortable around their geek male colleagues?
It’s weird how that story’s still considered hilarious in 2013.
it is at 2:40 in the 9 minute version for those looking for the reference, not the one on the home page.